The Terrifying Scale Of Production Code

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The Terrifying Scale Of Production Code

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That moment when your bootcamp "Hello World" project meets the absolute behemoth of production code in the wild. The cargo ship isn't just carrying containers—it's hauling technical debt, legacy systems, undocumented features, and that one critical function written by a dev who left in 2011. Meanwhile, you're standing there with your perfectly formatted 10-line script wondering why nobody told you about the seven layers of authentication and the custom build system written in Perl.

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